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BotCon 2008: WTF
In yesterday's comic, Daredevil said that Iron Man was the best movie he'd ever seen. That was, of course, a joke. Apparently some people were confused!

(Though I usually question whether Daredevil is really all that blind if he has super-insane echolocation that lets him see the shapes of everything anyway, that probably won't help much at the cinema.)

Shattered Glass Sideswipe, Whisper (Mini-Con), Blurr, and Divebomb (not pictured) formed the BotCon 2008 souvenir set I like to call the "WTF pack." Very little here makes sense.

First of all, Sideswipe was an abandoned store exclusive of a much more interesting character. He was originally going to be a new Generation 2 Drench. But while BotCon did manage to save the toy from Cancellation Hell, they did it by making him a dude from 1984. Though they did add a buttload of more paint detail, which is appreciated, the "DRENCH" decoration on his doors was removed, which disappoints me greatly. Thank heavens that wasn't replaced with "SIDESWIPE," which means that I can at least pretend he's Drench in the privacy of my own home, albeit a Drench without his name tattooed on his sides, no Drenchy "8" racing number, and a big purple Autobot symbol.

With his dark gray, teal, and yellow, he has one of the most interesting color combinations of all the Shattered Glass toys.

And Blurr? Oh man, don't get me started. Apparently they wanted to put Blurr in the set. Well, hey, there's this toy that already has Blurr's head. Okay, well, nobody actually likes the body that the head is on, but he has Blurr's head, so you gotta use it if you want Blurr. So guess what? They didn't like the Blurr head, so they paid cash money to give him a totally new and different Blurr head! Which begs the question why they didn't put the head on a better toy. That head coulda been on ANYTHING. This toy should not exist.

(Also, Blurr came misassembled. His crotch is upside-down. You can pop it out and put it back the way it should, but it wouldn't be BotCon without one of the toys arriving put together the wrong way.)

People say Blurr's pretty, but I don't really see it. I do like the lightning deco in car mode, but I don't find his robot mode very compelling at all, other than the new eye-patch. (The eye-patch is great.) Maybe if there were more color contrast in robot mode, instead of being almost entirely black, dark blue, and dark purple.

Bitchity bitch bitch bitch.

I'm hoping future Transformers club fiction makes these guys interesting, or I'll probably ditch them later. Sideswipe was fairly important in the comic, and I do like my army of Heroic Decepticons for some intangible reason, but Blurr did practically nothing and his bio card did him no favors. Additionally, Sideswipe has his hilarious bio card motto keeping him teetering closer to my "keep" pile: "There is only one rule now: revenge!" I'm not sure that makes sense, as I'm certain "revenge" isn't really a rule, per se, but that it doesn't make sense is amusing to me.

Again, the hints of camp save these guys. Well, they save Sideswipe. Blurr's state is pending.

Edit: Hold the presses. I forgot Blurr's quote is "The smarter I am, the faster you die." Now that's quality camp.

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From:[info]mecheon
Date:May 6th, 2008 03:27 am (UTC)
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I like the Blurr mold

... Of course, my favorite Transformer is a toy collecting hovercraft, so I might not count. I don't know

All that I know is that I want more random Shattered Glass characters in the future. Either that or some more Megazarak-verse characters

We also need Arm. Hot Shot redecoed as Shattered Glass Hot Shot. With JaAm paint applications and a green Jolt. It will sell, I swear it
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From:[info]shortpacked
Date:May 6th, 2008 03:30 am (UTC)
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Mirrorverse Hot Shot is decisive and attentive, while not battling his drug-induced frenzied outbursts of rage.
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From:[info]sabre_justice
Date:May 6th, 2008 09:28 am (UTC)
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mAaJ?
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From:[info]andrusi
Date:May 6th, 2008 05:16 pm (UTC)
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jELlY!
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From:[info]danihana
Date:May 6th, 2008 03:32 am (UTC)
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Your mom's crotch was upside-down.
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From:[info]doom_bees
Date:May 6th, 2008 01:15 pm (UTC)
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She let me correct it.

For a nickle.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:May 6th, 2008 05:27 am (UTC)
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So, wait...they almost released an Armada Hot Shot in red, white, and blue Smokescreen colors and you haven't said a thing about it? It looks as cool as the Drench repaint, I think, aside from being another guy from 1984.

--Triceratron
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From:[info]shortpacked
Date:May 6th, 2008 05:28 am (UTC)
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I say things about it lots!
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From:[info]deriksmith
Date:May 6th, 2008 11:22 am (UTC)
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I do not recall these alleged statements either.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:May 6th, 2008 05:54 am (UTC)

Sideswipe

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I believe Sideswipe's original quote was something like "I don't break the rules, I bend them a lot" -- this makes the mirrorverse one's quote a bit more sensical.
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From:[info]shortpacked
Date:May 6th, 2008 02:13 pm (UTC)

Re: Sideswipe

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That brings up another problem I have with these bio cards. I can see where they tried to twist their original tech spec quotes, but they don't do it at all interestingly. Megatron's original quote was "Peace through tyranny," but his mirror universe quote is "Peace will come to all Cybertronians." I don't feel like that's even trying! It's not even very Transformers quote-y. It should have used the "Peace through ______" template instead.

Or for super hilarity, twist his other quote, "Everything is fodder." Mirror that to "Everything is fantastic!" and you've got comedy gold.
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From:[info]monocle
Date:May 6th, 2008 04:50 pm (UTC)

Re: Sideswipe

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What about "Everything is absolutely Fab!"? Hmmm but then he would be in a British Sitcom.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:May 6th, 2008 06:00 am (UTC)

VENGEANCE

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Isn't Sideswipe's motto thematically cribbed from Armada Wheeljack, anyway, to go along with his body?

Wheeljack isn't here for vengeance, he's here for vengeance.

- FFN
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From:[info]b_rian
Date:May 6th, 2008 06:07 am (UTC)
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These bizarro Transformers are funny and all, but they're one of those things I can't see paying money for. I guess they serve the purpose of con-exclusives in that light.

All that aside, WOW. I don't think I've seen that shade of blue/green since the early 90's. On my sister's plastic jewelry.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:May 6th, 2008 07:12 pm (UTC)

And a cameo appearance by ShadowWing as Doc

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I actually like that new Blurr head better, at least from the picture you have up. Cybertron Blurr's head is too large, in my opinion, and he doesn't hold his guns well. They should have left them arm-mounted, like Armada Blurr.

And now I disappear forgetting to see if anyone response to this post. Cheesecake is awesome!
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From:[info]charles_rb
Date:May 6th, 2008 08:34 pm (UTC)
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Every time you post about Shattered Glass, I get depressed about the waste.

(And I want a Shattered Glass Sky-Byte, damn it. I don't know what he'd be like, but I want him.)
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From:[info]shortpacked
Date:May 6th, 2008 08:47 pm (UTC)
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He probably flies through the ground and raps.
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From:[info]z4nd4r
Date:May 6th, 2008 10:00 pm (UTC)
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He would be emo and you know it.
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From:[info]chaoswolf1982
Date:May 7th, 2008 06:27 am (UTC)
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Flying through the ground is called burrowing.
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From:[info]spitgirl
Date:May 7th, 2008 12:33 am (UTC)
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On a totally random note: Do you have this for your hamsters? You totally should get one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlt8u5lF9nY
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From:[info]shortpacked
Date:May 7th, 2008 12:40 am (UTC)
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Heh, we've totally debated buying that a few times. But it's pretty huge! I'm not sure we have a lot of room for it to scoot around, nor a place to store it.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:May 8th, 2008 08:28 pm (UTC)

Daredevil?

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Have to say...at first I didn't get it, but not because of Daredevil being blind. I actually thought that shell-head was talking to Spider-Man and Batman in some kind of "stars of successful comic movies peer review" cross-company confab. The idea that it was Daredevil didn't even occur to me. Either way, it's still Comedy Gold.

As an aside, it has to be great to draw Spider-Man. You never have to worry about matching his mouth/expression to the tone of the dialogue!

--Patrick
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